I wrote a follow-up inspired by this article here: http://www.softwareprojects.com/resources/conversion-traffic-to-cash/t-affiliate-tracking-system-is-flawed-1361.html

What is the point of that? CJ isn’t a spyware site and they certainly don’t allow spyware/adware related sales.

Why kill off revenue streams for affiliates by completely blocking access to legitimate websites?

Spybot is a great product for cleaning malware but they are just as bad as the overzealous spam blocking admins who don’t check the real source of the problem before blocking a domain.

Before SaferNetworking makes a comment about “their duty to protect the community” just think about this; without referrals and backlinks, where would Spybot be today?

Come on people, stop running around screaming “the sky is falling” and concentrate on the real problem sources. If you were all that worried about your privacy on the Internet, you wouldn’t be using another business that has your personal information and logs your activity when you get connected. The Internet doesn’t exist anymore, it has been replaced by a myriad of privately owned networks using the original Internet protocol. Malicious software writers exist, target them, don’t attack the revenue streams that support the Internet community.

Hey, I wanted to say I find Spybot to be a good piece of software.
I’ve been using it on my personal computers for at least the past 2+ years.

Spybot picks up stuff that Ad-Aware doesn’t detect and I like the immunization capabilities for your software.

Till recently, Azoogle and Clickbank cookies were not registered as tracking cookies (or as i call them spyware) till the more recent updates.

The end result is still the same though.
If a user decides to delete the cookie, the affiliate does not get credit for the transaction.

I suspect most will delete the tracking cookies unless they were flagged as ‘neutral’ instead of appearing in the “Problem” window.

And why do you quote it as “spyware”, when Spybot-S&D tells you quite clearly (just open the description panel at the right) that those are Tracking Cookies, not Spyware?

Please also not that this is on massive user request. Whenever we tried to remove those, users were getting on our roofs complaining that other software detects those, but ours not. Funnily, it’s actually the in later comments named Adaware which started this behaviour, which misnamed Alexa, etc.

the thing is whether you’ll choose to be problem-focused, or solution-focused and take appropriate action.

even with brick and mortar retail, they have challenges like bad/stolen credit cards, shoplifting, fire/flood damage.

It’s tempting to say the grass is greener on the other side, but more important to stay the course in what we’re doing and achieve results.

Too many people give up as they’re reaching their pinnacle of success.

the saddest thing is that many never know how close they truly were to making it.

do note that i’m referring to spyware/malware detectors here.

anti-virus is a different class of software altogether.